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Two light blue books stacked on top of each other. The spine and bottom of the book are visible. The title is printed in light gray letters in the center of the front cover.

Client

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Year

2017

Location

New York, NY

Mary Kelly
The Voice Remains

The Voice Remains is the first monograph to document Kelly's work with compressed lint over the past two decades, with texts by Juli Carson, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

"Mea Culpa is fabricated out of compressed grey lint gathered from the filter of the artist’s home dryer in which black and white clothes had been dried. Kelly attached letters to the filter and in this way produced intaglio words in the lint. She then joined together 20 units of lint, all retaining the dimensions and curved shape of the filter, to form five sixteen- to twenty-foot-long horizontal panels, each matted and framed as a separate work and titled with the site and date of a historical—which is to say, politically motivated and collective—trauma ..."

Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Designed by Pacific, Softcover with flaps, 8¼ × 10½ inches, 184 pages

Open book. The left side shows the interior of the softcover with flaps. The right side is the title page and features the artist's name is black serif letters.
Open book with text on both pages. The light blue cover is visible just on the edge of the left page.
Open book with text on the left page. Part of the right page features an exhibition photograph with text underneath.
Open book with nearly identical pages. Both feature an artwork made out of metallic rectangles on top of which someone has handwritten text.
Centerfold of a book that features an installation shot with two projected films on the walls.
Book interior. The left page is blank, the right page has a black and white artwork by the artist Mary Kelly.
Book interior. The left page is blank, the right page has a black and red artwork by the artist Mary Kelly.
Book interior. The left page is blank, the right page has a black and red artwork by the artist Mary Kelly.
Book interior. The left page is blank, the right page has a black and red artwork by the artist Mary Kelly.
Book interior. Full bleed, centerfold of a great and black artwork by the artist Mary Kelly.
Book interior. The left page is blank, the right page has a black and white artwork by the artist Mary Kelly.
An open book with a long, framed artwork stretching across the center of both pages.
A book interior which has a page of text on the left and an image on the right. The image takes up the top right corner of the page and has text underneath.
Open book with black and white images and text on both pages.
Centerfold depicting the artist Mary Kelly working.
A list of works in an open book.

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